Re: XML scientific data formats

• To: Ugo Taddei <p6taug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: XML scientific data formats
• From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:57:47 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

Ugo:

I'm very happy to see some attention being paid to XML by the VisAD
community!  There are a couple of other projects I know about:

There's the Earth Science Markup Language, ESML:

http://esml.itsc.uah.edu/index.html

and the work being done by the THREDDS group for locating data as part of
the DLESE (Digital Library for Earth Science Education):

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/

This is mainly a "discovery" project, whereas ESML is for data, AFAIK.

tom

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Ugo Taddei wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Strictly speaking, not a VisAD question, but nevertheless...
>
> I'm about to start some work on an XML Adapter and have considered two
> formats:
>
> Caltech's XSIL: Extensible Scientific Interchange Language
>
> http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/SDA/xsil/
>
> or
>
> NASA's eXtensible Data Format (XDF)
>
> http://xml.gsfc.nasa.gov/XDF/XDF_home.html
>
> Has anyone out there done something with either format?
>
> Has anyone some experience with either XSIL or XDF, even if not in a
> VisAD context?
>
> Any feedbacks and/or views are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ugo
>

--
Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Eng. Center
ph:  608.262.2759

• References:
  • XML scientific data formats
    • From: Ugo Taddei